More Research...

I am currently doing an internship with Bec & Bridge at the moment and a few days ago I saw these amazing patterned jeans of theres that I wanted to try and test out in design pattern. There a new design of theres and I didn't think I could find them on the internet... and after a few hours trying to find an image in of these jeans i came to the conclusion they are nowhere to be found on the internet...But I will explain what they are, Basically they are a toss repeat that is then striped, however the second stripe is faded. It looked amazing so I might experiment with that idea as inspiration later.

I FOUND SOME THAT LOOK SIMILAR!! close enough at least. Taking my daily dose of The man repeller blog I stumbled across this post of hers... The jeans have a similar pattern to those Bec&Bridge ones. They look like a challenge but thats my goal to use my passionfruit vine and create a pattern like this. You can see more of the blog post by clicking here.. She didn't mention the designer so I couldn't reference it.

THE RESEARCH BEGINS

I decided what part of nature around my neighbourhood I was going to be looking at for this pattern... it wasn't very hard as i settled with the passion fruit vine in my back garden. I took a few photographs of them yesterday... so here are the raw images that have not been manipulated via photoshop yet... I intend to do this if I end up using these images in my pattern

Macro image: Of the vines that drop over the shed which is seen in the background. Also in the foreground is the vines that wrap around my balcony.

I decided to play around with the fish eye application on my phone, so the quality isn't as great as the other photos, but still here is the passionfruit itself. I actually cut the passion fruit in half because the colours within the passion fruit are quite bright so possibly might incorporate them into the design.

The image of the "cut- in- half" passionfruit

Micro image: This flower was the underlying reason I choose this vine, its so unusual and the wiggly lines from it almost look like fireworks or those sticks that you set alight and you twirl them around and they make great patterns.

Micro Image: Although this is meant to be a micro image i just could not get the camera to focus on the twirlly vine parts because they kept moving in the wind. But bare with the blurriness.

Micro image of the passionfruit flower

Tutorial

The hardest thing to achieve during this tutorial was deciding what brushes to use to create the look in which i wanted. Also deciding how to manipulate these brushes to make it appear to be hair was also challenging but apart from that, it was relatively straight forward.

Photo Montage

SCANNING

This weeks exercise was to scan 5 objects and 2 patterned fabrics. My scanner at home is a Cannon MP210, so the instructions on how to scan will be based on this type of scanner.

Firstly, you must consider what the end purpose of the image is going to be to determine what resolution (dpi) you should use.

• Commercial printing = 300 dpi
• Digital printing = 150-200 dpi
• Web, email and multimedia = 72 - 96 dpi

How to scan:

1. Open lid and place image face down, then close lid.
2. Then on the side of the machine press the button that says "scan".
3. A window should pop up called "image capture" on your computer screen
4. Select the correct resolution, ensure it is scanning as an RGB, and select the correct filetype (jpeg). Ensure you have saved your image where you will be able to find it.
5. Next press scan on the computer, and your document should save.

Exercise: Scan an image at different dpi, examine the difference between each image.

Scanned at 300 dpi

Scanned at 150 dpi

Scanned at 75 dpi

Its obvious that the image scanned at 300 dpi is clearer due to the increased amount of dots or pixels per inch, thus allowing the image not to be pixelated like the 75 dpi image.

Exercise: Scan 2 objects and 2 patterned fabrics.

Saving your image:

Its important to save your image correctly so that its can be used correctly, makes perfect sense right? well when scanning save your image as a jpg then you can bring it into photoshop and adjust it as need be.

However if like me you are saving your image to be used for a blog you must ensure you save your scan within photoshop as " save for web and devices".

To do this you simply click on file, then a drop down menu will pop up, next you click on "save for web and devices" and your set to upload your image on to the web. By saving your scan via save for "web and devices" your image will then be at 72 dpi resolution.

Image Modes

Last lesson we also learnt about image modes, Lea drilled into us that RGB is the most desired mode to work in, and should only be changed into another mode such as CYMK for printing purposes. Below are some examples of the modes!

RGB

• Refers to Red, Green and Blue
• primary image mode for graphics

CYMK

• Mixture of colours to create images
• Generally RGB images must be converted to CYMK for printing, However some of the brightness of RGB images are lost.

GRAYSCALE

• Includes actual shades of grey
• pixels are made up of white grey and black shades

DUOTONE

• You can convert a grayscale image to a duotone image (2 colours)
• easy way to add colour to a black and white image

BITMAP

• Made up of pure black and white pixels with no shades of grey

Mccrossin. J. 2012, Moby, photograph, private collection.

Raster vs Vector

Last lesson we learnt about raster and vector images, along with the key differences of both. I also found a blog that illustrated what we had learnt, to visit this blog click here

Raster

• Photoshop uses raster images
• Resolution dependant
• Uses DPI ( dots per inch) and PPI ( pixels per inch)
• When scaled up the pixels get larger and the image becomes less clear

Amit Kr Sharma, 2011, "Vector graphics- vs- Raster graphics", Tutorials Twist, weblog, viewed 11th March 2012, http://tutorials-twist.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/vector-graphicsvsraster-graphics.html

Vector

• Resolution independent
• Illustrator uses vector images
• Scaled down or up without distortion
• Uses mathematical formula and no pixels